Professional
Development Programs presents:
The
1st New Jersey Symposium on Intervention
for
Persons with Special Needs
Thursday
May 6 - Saturday May 8, 2004
Morristown,
New Jersey
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SCHEDULED
TOPICS INCLUDE:
Vestibular
Activation
1 day, 6 contact hours
Mary
Kawar, MS, OTR
Description:
This course emphasizes the central
role of the vestibular system for the aquisition and maintenance
of function and for the amelioration of dysfunction. At the
most fundamental level, our ability to move is essential
for survival. We move for sheer delight as well as for purposeful
occupation with people. objects and events in our world.
Knowing how to optimize the therapeutic components of movement
enables us to integrate them seamlessly with other strategies
for our clients. The vestibular system's impact on the body,
mind and spirit will be reviewed and this knowledge will
be translated into experience based learning as a foundation
for facilitating all types and levels of therapeutic, goal-directed
movement with clients. Neurologically sound, step by step
vestibular assessment and treatment strategies, client-based
clinical reasoning, and movement labs will be the format
used to embed therapeutic concepts into fun, powerful activities.
Learn to tune and play the vestibular system like a musical
instrument, blending rhythm, intensity, frequency, and duration
of movement into the whole for that just right level of engagement.
Objectives:
Participants
will be able to:
1. Identify three or more causes of vestibular dysfunction and their impact
on functional performance.
2. Demonstrate at least two treatment strategies for each of the five vestibular
receptors.
3. Describe the vestibulo-cerebellar underpinnings for visual and auditory
function.
4. Define treatment options and rationale for modifying rhythm, intensity,
frequency and/or duration of movement.
5. Describe the vestibulo-proprioceptive foundation for core activation.
Sensory
Integration for Speech/Language Pathologists
2 days, 12 contact hours
Scott
Fox, MA, CCC, SLP & Patti Oetter, MA, OTR, FAOTA
Description:
This
seminar is designed for speech and language pathologists
who have an interest in including Sensory Integration intervention
principles from the work of Dr. A. Jean Ayres in their practice.
For many years, occupational therapists and speech language
pathologists have recognized the existence of a relationship
between sensorimortor function and the development of speech
and language in children. Through lectures, slides, videotapes
of intervention and discussion, participants will be introduced
to information immediately applicable to intervention in
children ages birth through school age. The sensorimotor
strategies discussed will be applied to traditional speech
and language approaches.
Objectives:
Participants
will be able to
1.
Learn to recognize arousal states and design strategies
to bring children to a state of readiness and interest
for communication, interaction, learning and fun.
2. Outline the relationship between sensory processing
and the development of interaction and communication
skills.
3. Describe the relationships between sensory processing,
non-verbal communication and speech and language development.
4. Identify the significant aspects of speech sound productin
that relate to sensory integration, respiratory support,
oral apraxia and oral motor function.
The
Biochemistry of Modulation, Meaning & Purpose
1
day, 6 contact hours
Steven
J. Cool, PhD, FAAO
Sensory
(-motor) information in the Central Nervous System is
principally organized as survival-based reflexes. "Primitive"
reflex information takes on "meaning" and "purpose" through
the sequential, developmental addition of what are typically
called "visceral control functions" and "emotions". These
functions, in turn, are directly related to primitive
neurotransmitter, biochemical actions in the sympathetic-autonomic
portions of the brainstem. The emergence of "higher cognitive"
functions is an outcome of expanded information processing
capacity afforded by the development of cerebral tissue.
However, this enormous addition of cortical CNS tissuie
is virtually worthless unless brainstem neurotransmitter
modulation and integration are appropriately organized
and functioning. This biochemical, neurotransmitter organization
will be explored through examination of MacLean's model
of the Triune Brain. Modulation functions will be seen
to be essential to the development of sensory (-motor)
integration and the emergence of higher cortical function.
The "brainstem rules", and nowhere is the seen more graphically
than in the neurochemical modulation of cerebral tissue.
Objectives:
Participants
will be able to
1.
Describe modulation as a function of brainstem neurochemistry.
2. Relate modulation neurochemistry to emotion, motivation,
meaning and purpose.
3. Translate the understandings into the effective therapeutic
application of meaningful, purposeful occupation and
function.
Neurobiological
Foundations of Treatment
for Posture and Praxis
1 day, 6 contact hours
Steven
J. Cool, PhD, FAAO & Patti Oetter, MA, OTR, FAOTA
This
day is designed as a treatment oriented follow-up to The
Biochemistry of Modulation, Meaning & Purpose. This
course emphasizes the role of brainstem modulation and
integration on the development of postural adaptation
and practic abilities. Special attention will be given
to treatment principles and strategies to facilitate
both outcomes. Sensory Integration Theory first introduced
to therapists by Dr. A. Jean Ayres has been validated
in the neurosciences over the past 40 years and expanded
upon in many areas of science and occupational therapy
practice. Come explore why what you do works and how
you might both refine and expand your options for treatment.
Objectives:
Participants
will be able to
1.
identify treatment principles and strategies to facilitate
modulation at the brainstem level to address behavioral
organizatin (attention, modulation, self regulation).
2. Identify treatment principles and strategies to facilitate
development and refinement of postural mechanisms.
3. Identify treatment principles and strategies to facilitate
development and refinement of practic outcomes. (Ability
to conceptualize an outcome, plan and choose strategies
to realize that outcome and evaluate and refine those
strategies during and after executing the strategies
to realize the outcome).
| Course
Location & Hotel Info. |
Dates: |
Tuition: |
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Morristown,
NJ
Hotel Information
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May
5-8, 2004
[Register]
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1-day:
$190.00
2-days:
$325.00
3-days: $450.00
All
course fees include handouts, lab materials and
refreshments.
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